Williams v. Thomas Jefferson University

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

DITTER, District Judge.

In this malpractice case, both plaintiff and defendant have filed motions to compel answers to questions posed during discovery depositions.

Plaintiff alleges that on July 9, 1969, she underwent a therapeutic abortion in Jefferson Hospital, performed by David M. Goodner, M.D., a resident physician. She was discharged the next day with instructions from Dr. Goodner to call him if she experienced heavy bleeding and to return for examination in six weeks. On July 14 she called Dr. Goodner because she was having cramps. He told her to take codeine for the…